Table 4.

Factors that Discouraged Nonparental Caregivers from Adopting

Reason for Not Planning to Adopt	Percent (standard error) among Nonparental Caregivers Not Currently Planning to Adopt
Parental rights not relinquished by parents or terminated	11.6 (2.63)
Financial concerns	8.5 (1.59)
Child still emotionally attached to biological parents	6.0 (1.84)
Child’s parents discouraged adoption	4.2 (1.49)
Caregiver’s health or age	2.6 (0.82)
Adoption process too complicated or difficult	2.4 (0.91)
Child’s health problems that caregiver can’t handle long-term	0.4 (0.14)
Problems between child and caregiver’s family members	0.3 (0.13)
Child was too old	1.0 (0.38)
Child’s behavior problems/juvenile justice system issues	0.1 (0.05)
Child’s race/ethnicity differs from caregiver’s family	0.1 (0.11)
Other	41.6 (3.92)
No discouraging factors	26.6 (3.89)